HIT: With quality schools and accessible health care, New Jersey is the eighth-best state in the country to raise a child, according to the latest annual Kids Count report card on family well-being.

MISS: The state could have ranked higher if poverty were less pervasive, the report said.

HIT: Lifeguards at West Windsor's Water Works Family Aquatic Center rescuing a 6-year-old girl facedown in 3 feet of water on Thursday. After they removed the girl from the pool, she was immediately responsive.

HIT: Responding to a series of fiery train crashes, the government proposed rules Wednesday that would phase out tens of thousands of older tank cars that carry increasing quantities of crude oil and other highly flammable liquids through America's towns and cities.

HIT: Ross Dress for Less, a discounted fashion and home décor chain, opened its doors last Saturday in the Windsor Heights Shopping Center on Route 130 in East Windsor, occupying the remaining 22,500-square-feet of the former Super Fresh.

MISS: General Motors, which has already called back almost 29 million vehicles in North America for various fixes this year, recalled almost 718,000 more Wednesday in the United States, many of them recent models.

HIT: More than 42,000 policyholders in New Jersey health insurance plans will be getting small refunds, courtesy of a federal law that prevents insurers from overcharging for coverage.

MISS: Hands-on 70-year-old Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen giving up control of his team because of Alzheimer's disease.

HIT: John O. Aje of Lawrence, dean of the School of Applied Science and Technology at Trenton-based Thomas Edison State College, was a guest editor in an issue of Technovation on security in the cyber supply chain.

HIT: Cool air forecast to spill into the eastern half of the country next week, likely bringing a comfortable end to a month more typically marked by excessive heat and humidity.

HIT: The large Jersey shore-based Endreson family that suffered losses during Superstorm Sandy sharing a New Jersey $20 million lottery jackpot that one of the 17 siblings said would be "a great pick-me-up."

MISS: New Jersey has fourth-lowest HPV vaccination rate in country for girls. The vaccine protects against the virus that can cause cancers of the cervix, genitals and throat.

HIT: The James E. Cryan Memorial Tennis tournament kicks off today at Mercer County Park in West Windsor.

HIT: Pope Francis will come to Philadelphia next year for the World Meeting of Families, according to catholicphilly.com. The World Meeting of Families will be held Sept. 22-27 in the city and, "The pope will be with us the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of that week," Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told the website.